Building a New server room that currently has water sprinklers that I need to have removed. What are safe fire suppresent options?

I know in many of the electrical switch gear rooms I have serviced in the past halon ws used but the halon system had to be locked out before personal could enter the room due to accidental discharge but these were systems 5+ years ago. I imagine there is a safer and less hazardous system for server rooms? This will be a small scale room about 14x14.

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Several of my clients have FM-200 in their data centers. This is similar to halon but has lesser of a CFC. I haven't seen the requirements for a lockout but typically there is multiple smoke sensors that must be activated at the same time and a push and hold system disable button for the FM-200. There should be a horn that sounds for up to 60 seconds before the fire suppressant is released. Some fire systems (depending on the local electrical code) will deactivate the A/C and data center power as the horn starts. That way when the suppressant is released the suppressant isn't sucked into the A/C system requiring a larger suppressant system .

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While Halon system were extremely effective back in the day, they are now illegal. Fike has many of the aforementioned systems along with a new inert gas system called ProInert. Worth taking a look if you get the chance.

Halon will always live on in my memories and in Terminator 2. Anyway, there are various halocarbon solutions you can use. John White's links are pretty good. I just wanted to make a reference to Terminator 2.